°tin • ABERDARE FUND'-POINTS FROM' LETTERS •••
A. H. L. Bolton.
I cannot resist the appeal of your Special Commissioner . . I gladly enclose a cheque for twelve weeks at this rate to help to brighten some sad home.
Mee. E. M. Peel, eft, Westminster Bank, Sandgate Road, Folkestone. - I should like it spent in Aberdare, so as to benefit the shops as well as the miners, if this can be conveniently managed.
The Rev. W. D. Thomas, 9 Balmy Hill, Congleton, Cheshire. As to 'denomination, I am a Congregationalist minister. We have had to start a fund largely for the relief of our ministers in S. Wales. In many placeS the miners have been the back-bone of our churches. Theirpresent sorry plight has reacted disastrously
upon our churches and ministers. •
Mr. Robert Watson, 6 Corrennie Gardens, Edinburgh. Isena you cheque for £1, being- for the'first four weeks of my promise; and I--shall send you a similar amount monthly till the end of April. - "L. D.' W.," 4 The Grove, Highgate Village, N. 6. During the week before Christmas my iamily of four children
• —and- three servants and ourselves had a self-denial week, during
• which we all lived on strictly economical rations, and also each put into the box as much as we could afford. I am glad to be able tO'hand you'the result, this 'little sum of £2 10s., to help in -•-the Aberdare Fund.,
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Mr. H. Wilmer, Hotel Regis, Clarens, Vaud., Switzerland. " —1 hope that your kindly appeal to the sympathies of 1,500
-families will be- successful. -
Mr. k." 6. Hughes, Cefn Mawr, Llangaffo Anglesey. "For-nearly sixteen years, 1892 to 1908, I was in close touch -with " Sweet -'berdar " as during that period I was private .secretary to the Senior Member for the Merthyr Boroughs, the late Lord Rhondda. My memories of Aberdare are sweet ones "and my respect and- regard- for the inhabitants of the valley deep 7tad lasting: .1-was frequently- in touch with the miners and then. _leaders, men of great indepeLdence of character and sterling worth. sincerely trust every success will attend the generous and highly deserving work of the Spectator.
Mrs. Q. M. Pell, 2 Ongatq Square, S.W. 7. I acknowledge, with thanks, your kind communications in • ieference to My small contribution ti:c the Spectator Fund for the - Aberdare miners. The-case of elderly folk who have been thrifty in saving• for the comfort of. old. age appeals to me as worthy of special, help when, through no fault, of their own, all has been lost.. I am therefore grateful to you for so kindly allocating my small dontribUtibn 'to the case described in your columns.
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